1. in a state of high anxiety.
2. having a nervous physical habit.
3. indication of a really good game or
good performance in a game.
1.Oh man, I've gotta give this speech tomorrow, and, man, I AM burning calories.
2. She was really burning calories, swingin' her leg all through dinner.
3. Winning score was 16 to 15, we were
burning calories!!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)